It points to a story in USA Today by Melissa Pandika that may be of interest – Your home’s odor may be making you sick. It is about the work on Joan Bennett and researchers from Rutgers and Emory. I don’t have time to dig into it right now but perhaps others do.

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I added Joan Bennett’s PNAS paper to the Microbiology of the Built Environment collection on Mendeley yesterday. During the last two weeks, I have added several papers to that collection on microbial VOCs responsible or mold odor. Jaakkola’s group found respiratory system effects associated with mold odor in three separate papers I also added to the Mendeley collection recently.

MVOC are an important outcome of mold growth and more attention should be paid to the mixture that produces odors and the assocation of mixtures to the effects.

Check out Araki et al 2010 (Science of the Total Environment, 408: 2208-2215).

Also see Wilkins et al 2000, Chemosphere. Volatile metabolites from mold growth on building materials and synthetic media.

These last few papers have not yet been added to our database of indoor environment/indoor microbiome literature, but will be added soon. You can download the database of more than 370 publications from the home page of my web site: http://www.buildingecology.com, or from my page on Research Gate. You will also find a “how to” file for searching the database and a description of the curation process including our inclusion criteria.

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